The healing power of a hidden garden

For anyone who has read Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, Ellen Potter’s latest book will feel very familiar. In The Humming Room, Potter has taken the metaphor of wild, neglected garden as wild, neglected child and updated it for a new audience.Like Mary in The Secret Garden, Roo finds herself living with people she does not know, in a house that has many secrets. Her...